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Wet Moon Volume 5: Where All Stars Fail To Burn (2009)

by Ross Campbell(Favorite Author)

4.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1934964255 (ISBN13: 9781934964255)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Oni Press

series

Wet Moon

review 1: So having seen that there were 5 books in the series at the shop, I thought there were 5 books all told. So I finished 4 and rushed out to get 5 only to find out there was an even WORSE cliff hanger at the end! I read all 5 books in about two weeks and now I have to wait till 6 gets published! *wails*. It was very strange but at the end of four I was actually sad they didn't get to the baseball game (and I hate baseball!) so the begining of this was really great! Mara was just amazing throughout. I felt so much sympathy for her and Cleo. God Cleo's journals sound almost exactly the same as my own diaries from my first few years of university. I so identify with her coming to terms with her bisexuality, and how even with queer friends she still feels judged, and falling in ... morelove with your best friend while you're supposed to be dating someone else. It just captures perfectly how fucked up and intense it is to be young and confussed. (With gorgeous art of punk and goth chicks). I'm sad that Myrtle seems to be turning or being revealed to be evil as I really liked her and her and Cleo were so cute in book 3! But the story is totally sucking me in. And as always in these books some of the best and most defining character moments have no dialogue at all. I think the best comics are when they are written and drawn by the same person and so much can be expressed without words and Ross just does that brilliantly. All the girls fears and insecurities just come out beautifully. In this book Natalie really comes into her own and I really love the scenes with her and Mara. (and not just cause Mara is incredibly cute in the photoshoot). I just adore this series and can't wait for the rest to be finished!
review 2: Oh, Wet Moon. So angsty and drama-filled. I adore it. I love Ross Cambpell's pudgy little characters with the big eyes and the confusion about their love lives. I love that the most tomboyish main character (beloved Trilby) is also the only outright straight female main character. I love the weird side stories and the feeling that they're all on the point of converging. I honestly cannot put a Wet Moon book down after I open it until it's finished.Volume 5, Where All Stars Fail to Burn, is where the shit starts to go down. Things start happening faster. We watch Cleo kinda sorta start to fall in love with a close friend, and also deal with her sister Penny's big secret. We watch Trilby and her geektastic boyfriend, Martin, be just outright adorable, and Martin gets to meet Trilby's parents. We watch Audrey finally stand up for herself. Myrtle becomes even more psychotic, and Fern becomes even more unbelievably weird. We still don't know who the masked vigilante is, though I've got some theories going. And of course, we get to see the big softball game. Campbell, that incredibly talented SOB, leaves the book with a heart-breaking killer of a cliff-hanger - I almost fell out of my airplane seat in shock that he would leave the story like that FOR MONTHS! Until the next book comes out! ARGH! It sets my teeth on edge just thinking about it, even now, and I read this book two and a half months ago!Bottom line, 5 stars. I cannot get enough of this series. It's killing me that I might have to wait a whole year for the next one. Damn you, Ross Campbell!!! less

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